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129635.20 in reply to 129635.18
Date: 3/19/2010 2:46:46 PM
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Having it just for supporters would make a lot more people become supporter( I think) so it would be better for the game in the long run.


and lot of non supporters leave, real advantages for money are normally a killr for online games

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129635.21 in reply to 129635.19
Date: 3/19/2010 2:53:19 PM
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Why is allowing the entire community to bid on players a bad thing? Do you mean that it stops people with more money just buying any player they want because they have more money? If so, it doesn't really, it just makes it harder because it means they have to stay awake to do it.

I understand shopping for deals. But an auto bid doesn't stop that. Players that use autobid on a player, could just as easily bid the value they set in autobid on that player, in which case it makes no difference.

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129635.22 in reply to 129635.21
Date: 3/19/2010 3:05:03 PM
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Why is allowing the entire community to bid on players a bad thing

It will make it alot tougher to get a player you are after. I like a 1 in 1000 odds compaired to a 1 in 10,000 chance. The other more major thing that does is drive prices up even more. The old supply and demand theory applies!!! The supply does not change but the demand would. More users able to bid equals more demand.

I understand shopping for deals. But an auto bid doesn't stop that. Players that use autobid on a player, could just as easily bid the value they set in autobid on that player, in which case it makes no difference.


I totally disagree. Auto bid completely stops that otherwise they should bid what they want to pay right off the bat. Imagine logging on in the wee hours to find that diamond in the rough. A player with a 200k value that has a current bid of 85k, so you wait and place a last minute bid of 100k. Surely since there are only 280 users online, you have a great chance at this player. And then poof...auto bids kick in. You raise 2k, auto bid raises 2k......and so on til the bid reaches 250K. You check to see the manager who you are against hoping you can gauge his finances/intent only to find out he is fast asleep. Pretty non dramatic if you ask me. It is like bidding against the bank on an E-Bay auction, boring!!

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129635.23 in reply to 129635.22
Date: 3/19/2010 3:10:41 PM
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haha true, I guess I just figured it gives players that have to be asleep a chance to buy players they might not otherwise be able to get. And no one likes just going out and bidding maximum value straight up, or at least I don't.

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129635.24 in reply to 129635.23
Date: 3/19/2010 4:54:04 PM
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I am not a big fan of going with a max bid right away either, but there are plenty of other bidding stratagies.

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129635.25 in reply to 129635.24
Date: 3/19/2010 5:09:10 PM
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Not if the player is going to sell while you are asleep.

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129635.26 in reply to 129635.25
Date: 3/19/2010 5:36:13 PM
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True. I usually only search for players that are available when I can be online, so feel that is an ample compromise.

From: Kukoc
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129635.27 in reply to 129635.26
Date: 3/19/2010 7:16:58 PM
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This is a really bad idea. First of all it will add a lot of server load.
There are plenty of times I have woke up in the middle of the night in order to bid on staff or a player. I seldom am the only one from "wrong timezone" bidding. So I am strongly against auto-bids, if you want a player -> wake up to bid for him or set the initial bid high enough to get him.

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129635.28 in reply to 129635.27
Date: 3/20/2010 5:08:26 AM
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You said first of all. Is there another reason it is bad?

Sure people can wake up in the middle of the night every time they want a half decent player, or they could just bid the maxiumum they can afford straight up, but people don't generally like doing this. Having the auto bid, as a supporter feature only, would not increase the server load too much, more people would become supporter and so they could afford more servers to reduce the load, and it would allow people to bid on a player without getting up at 4am.

From: CrazyEye

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129635.29 in reply to 129635.27
Date: 3/20/2010 5:29:05 AM
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This is a really bad idea. First of all it will add a lot of server load.


normally that is pretty good for the servers, because normally you just giving a second variable to the transfer. So you had current price, and a hidden maximum bid. if you now bid it got compared to the maximum bid, and you calculate the new price with it - thats much cheaper then to bid against each other because that makes traffic two bid agents against each other make just 4 simple calculation ;)

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129635.30 in reply to 129635.28
Date: 3/20/2010 5:32:39 AM
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If it would be supporter only, it would give an unfair advantage to supporters. That's what BB-s are trying to avoid.

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